Amir Bashir Bazaz

Associate Professor
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School of Systems & Infrastructure
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Amir Bashir Bazaz has nearly 25 years of experience across a range of areas and themes. These include climate, environment, disaster risk, energy, and urban policy. He has also held multiple engineering roles in the early phases of his career. He works on issues at the intersection of economics, finance, climate change mitigation, disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, just energy transitions and sustainable development. His current research interests are on coupled urban and climate transitions, including unpacking the mechanics of long-term transition and transformation pathways.

Amir brings substantial experience on cities, their governance, and the underlying dynamics of market and non-market frameworks to the climate and disaster risk dynamics. He also brings in rich experience from his work on infrastructure and particularly, climate- and disaster-resilient infrastructure.

He was the National Expert Consultant to the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India, for the Second National Communication to the UNFCCC and worked extensively across multiple geographies, such as sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Amir was the Lead Author on the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) Flagship Report on Global Infrastructure Resilience 2023, Lead Author on the Green Climate Fund report on ‘Scaling up Climate Finance 2021’, Lead Author on the Summary for Urban Policymakers 2022, Contributing Author on the IPCC WG II Assessment Report 6 and IPCC 2018 Special Report on 1.5°C.

Amir holds a PhD in Management from IIM Ahmedabad, with a specialisation in Public Systems, and a first degree (with Honours) in Electrical Engineering from IIT Roorkee.

Amir has taught courses on Infrastructure Systems, Climate Policy, Energy Systems, Environmental Economics, and Development Economics across multiple postgraduate programmes and has mentored nearly 50 young researchers across multiple research and practice-based projects.

Thematic areas

Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Economic Development, Education, Energy, Finance, Governance

Education

  • 2011 – Fellow (eq. to PhD), Public Systems, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India
  • 1999 – BE (Hons.), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, Roorkee, India
  • Green Climate Index – TNCCM
  • Dravya: IIHS Centre for Materials and Sustainable Development
  • Identification and financing for Urbanisation in India
  • Climate Change Local Adaptation Pathways (CLAPs)
  • Climate and disaster resilient and net-zero green housing (under PMAY–G study)
  • Assessment of BBMP finances for the 5th Karnataka State Finance Commission
  • Sustainability education in Indian technical higher education: Curriculum and pedagogical approaches
  • Clean Energy Living Lab – Urban Low-Carbon Affordable Residences (CELLULAR): A light house model for affordable zero-carbon living in India
  • Intersections of just energy transition and climate-induced migration in India
  • Capacity building workshops on energy-efficient habitat for Tamil Nadu Climate Change Mission (TNCCM)
  • Energy Efficient Habitat Workshops: Tamil Nadu Climate Change Mission (TNCCM)
  • Reimagining Education for Equity: Interrogating Policy and Practice
  • Support for the biennial report on disaster and climate resilient infrastructure
  • Global Commission on the Economics of Water (GCEW)
  • Sustainable urban mobility
  • Role of flood preparedness assessment scorecard in improving flood preparedness and response: A review of effectiveness
  • Indian Municipal Finance 2022: An Update
  • Summary for Urban Policymakers (SUP)
  • Indian Municipal Finance 2022
  • Shaping Urban Futures: Working Across Theory and Practice
  • Higher education, urban resilience and infrastructure: How do we reimagine curriculum, content and delivery?
  • Reconfiguring Energy for Social Equity (ReSET)
  • Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures (TESF)
  • Climate-resilient development pathways for semi-arid regions of Africa and South Asia (CRDP-SAR)
  • Identifying steps towards making India compatible with the 1.5°C target
  • Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction (CDRR)
  • Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture as Green Infrastructure (UP-AGrI)
  • Engagement with the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)
  • Report on scaling up climate finance in the context of COVID-19
  • Multi-Hazard Urban Disaster Risk Transitions Research Hub
  • India Disaster Resilience Leadership Fellowship
  • Enabling the business environment for green buildings development
  • PEAK Urban: Energy transitions in Bengaluru
  • PEAK Urban
  • CapaCITIES: Migration, livelihoods and climate resilience
  • Disaster resilience leadership
  • Energy innovations for low-income housing in India and South Africa
  • Urban greenprint for Coimbatore city
  • Policy advisory for sustainable housing
  • Resilience baseline study: Enhancing community resilience to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
  • Makran Subduction tsunami risk analysis for the cities on the Indian west coast
  • Reducing relocation risk in urban areas
  • Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR)—Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA)
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